Ensemble To Perform For Music Club

December 19, 1991

WILLIAMSBURG — Capriole, under the direction of Gayle Johnson, will honor the Wednesday Morning Music Club on Jan. 15 with a preview of its upcoming concert, featuring a baroque dance artist. The meeting will be held at the Williamsburg Baptist Church at 10 a.m.

Following the coffee and meeting, the William and Mary resident ensemble will perform with guest artist Paige Whitley-Baugess.

Johnson, artistic director of Capriole, has studied and performed baroque music at Oberlin, University of Washington and New England Conservatory of Music. She received a fellowship at Newberry library for the Humanities in Chicago before assuming the position of Artistic Director of Capriole in 1979. Capriole specializes in the relation of 17th-century music to graphic arts, poetry and dance.

Whitley-Baugess, guest dancer, is a native of Charlotte, N.C. and holds degrees from the University of California and the North Carolina School of Arts. She is currently director of The Carolina Consort, a baroque orchestra based in Winston Salem, N.C. A frequent lecturer on baroque dance, Whitley-Baugess has also performed in concerts in Boston, as well as Los Angeles.

For the Music Club program, Whitley-Baugess will demonstrate baroque dance steps with the ensemble and will also perform a solo suite of dances by Jean-Henri D'Anglebert.